This innovative, intermediate-level statistics text fills an important gap by presenting the theory of linear statistical models at a level appropriate for senior undergraduate or first-year graduate students. With an innovative approach, the author's introduces students to the mathematical and statistical concepts and tools that form a foundation for studying the theory and applications of both univariate and multivariate linear models A First Course in Linear Model Theory systematically presents the basic theory behind linear statistical models with motivation from an algebraic as well as a geometric perspective. Through the concepts and tools of matrix and linear algebra and distribution ...

AD 1647, RAJASTHAN One of the most beautiful summer retreats is built by Maharaja Raghuveer for his Queen in the pristine Aravali hills in Rajasthan. But the Royal Sage and Astrologer discovers an evil presence lurking in the House. It is waiting for something .some mysterious power to descend. After finding the evil intentions of this 'being', the Sage advices the king not to occupy the House.The result: the House is promptly abandoned by the King.PRESENT DAY After nearly four hundred years, the evil is still waiting for the mysterious power to descend. Only this time, it has a new, deadlier face: a cult called Ghoras who worship the demon Ghorathighora. Now the power descends into the hand...

Who are the Indian Leftists? Why are communist leaders like Harkishan Singh Surjeet and Sitaram Yechury considered so important though the Indian Left parties are numerically not very strong in Parliament? Why is it that the most extravagant claims of the Leftists pass off as gospel truth and their kinky theories as well-known facts? Where do the Leftists derive their authority from? More Equal Than Others seeks to answer such questions and analyzes why the influence of the Indian Left is disproportionately greater than its electoral strength. Ravi Shanker Kapoor asserts that a purely political study will not help understand the tremendous intellectual hegemony of the Left; one has to look b...

Why Vajpayee failed Why did the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government prove to be such a comprehensive failure? Why did the Bharatiya Janata Party, the so-called "party with a difference" that promised to provide "a viable alternative", falter so badly once in power? Why after every scandal did the BJP leaders brazenly argue that "Congress did the same thing" and that "their scam was bigger than ours"? Failing the Promise probes such questions. The book indicts the Vajpayee government for failing its promise of effecting fundamental change. More than the so-called compulsions of coalition politics, the author holds the real reason to be a lack of conviction on the part of Vajpayee and his colleagues. Theirs was a mandate for a change of regime, and not merely of government but the first-ever Indian Right-wing formation in power failed to alter the grammar of politics and the idiom of public discourse.